Peter Jackson Quotes

The world has arrived at an age of cheap complex devices of great reliability, and something is bound to come of it.

When you're an artist, all you're trying to do is self-express.

We are in an electronic technology age now and it's about time we put away the old stuff.

Technology makes everyone feel old. A laptop is old after two years. Someone always has something newer. Everyone seems to feel obsolete now, even the young.

The technological breakthrough of the World Wide Web has been enormously beneficial to society.

Painting is not for me either decorative amusement, or the plastic invention of felt reality; it must be every time: invention, discovery, revelation.

You don't have to be Picasso or Rembrandt to create something. The fun of it, the joy of creating, is way high above anything else to do with the art form.

I read an interview where someone said, 'It's a shame that anyone can make a movie now,' and I feel the exact opposite.

For me, drawing is a way of navigating the imagination, and it remains the fundamental vehicle of my practice. Drawing allows me to be at my most inventive.

The technology keeps moving forward, which makes it easier for the artists to tell their stories and paint the pictures they want.

What turns me on about the digital age, what excited me personally, is that you have closed the gap between dreaming and doing. You see, it used to be that if you wanted to make a record of a song, you needed a studio and a producer. Now, you need a laptop.

It's the role of the artist to pursue content.

In any art movement, the art has to move into a new phase - a filmmaker has a desire to make a film that is not like a previous film.

I consider all my films experiments.

Film is a very young art that is still evolving. Soon, we shall reach a balance between content and technology.

Sometimes I'm dazzled by how modern and fabulous we are, and how easy everything can be for us; that's the gilded glow of technology, and I marvel at it all the time.

I've been fortunate to have had the opportunity to be at the forefront of the digital media revolution.

The computer is my favourite invention. I feel lucky to be part of the global village. I don't mean to brag, but I'm so fast with technology. People think it all seems too much, but we'll get used to it. I'm sure it all seemed too much when we were learning to walk.

We're living in a tremendously new landscape, and the possibility of what can be created is immense. These tools of the moving image have a relatively short history in art, and what we can do with them is still largely unknown. We are still innovating and finding ways to tell stories.

That's what I've been trying to strive for - to draw a clear picture, to open up a new dimension.

In the history of comics and movies and music too, it's always when things are at their bottomed-out, either creatively or financially, there's more chance-taking going on.

A good example of the modern world is the Eurotunnel. And mobile phones - I like them.

PowerPoint may not be of any use for you in a presentation, but it may liberate you in another way, an artistic way. Who knows.

I don't know when network executives will get out of the Dark Ages.

The whole point of film for me is that it's such a joy. It's such a wonder. The possibilities are literally endless in terms of what you can creatively do.